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Gwendolyn Brooks | US Poet Laureate - Part 2 | Episode #384 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make your Life Count.
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I'm your host, Doctor Gloria. Gloria Burgess, international leadership expert and
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trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make your Life Count. I am
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so delighted that you joined me today. I want to give a big thank
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you to those of you who are listening. I also want to give a
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great, big shout out to all of you listening around the world. I'm
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delighted and so grateful that you are here today. I sure hope you're enjoying
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a fabulous day and that you're having a fantastic week, because you know what,
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in the grand song of the universe, life is very short. It's
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short and sweet and very precious. So I hope you're making a difference in
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your own life because when you do, you also make a difference in somebody
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else's life. Now, a lot of us, a lot of folks really
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want to make their life count for something, but they don't know how,
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or they don't know where to begin. So they ask me, doctor Gloria,
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how do you do that? How do you make your life count?
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Well, it's very simple, very simple. You make your life count day
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by day, step by step, moment by moment, every single day,
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ere sixty five, twenty four to seven. Now, I'll say much more
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about that later on. Right now it's time to step back and listen in.
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That's right, it's time to hit the pause button. It's time for
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today's episode, which is all about the power of one person. Now I
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want you to imagine that we're in the same room. Maybe it's your kitchen
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or your living room, and I'm sitting right across the table from you.
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I'm pouring you a cup of coffee or tea, and we are about to
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have a small cup of what matters. So again, today's focus is all
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about the power of one the power of one person who can be the difference,
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who makes the difference in their own life or in someone else's life.
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Now, today's episode focuses on one of my favorite people on the planet.
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Her name is Gwendolen Brooks. Her life is what legacy living, make your
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life count is all about. Now, most of us know miss Brooks as
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a marvelous poet. I know her as a poet extraordinaire. I also know
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Miss Gwendolen as a kind, gentle, smart, fiercely caring human being for
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me. She was the one person who made a difference in my life at
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a time in my life. You know that, just the right time in
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my life. She showed up for me and made a difference during a particular
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season when I really needed it. So what does that mean? Well,
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sometimes a season is just for a minute, for a very very short time,
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and yet the impact of someone showing up in your life for that moment,
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when in time, their impact ripples far out beyond the few months or
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weeks, or days or even a few hours that you're graced by that person's
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presence. I was so blessed by Gwendolen Brooks. She was one of those
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individuals who made a difference, who made a significant difference in my life.
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She was there at just the right time, at just the right place,
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in just the right season of my life. In fact, I had the
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good fortune to meet miss Brooks not once, but twice. Now. I
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talk about both of those occasions in part one of this podcast, so be
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sure to listen to it. Today's topic is poetry in Motion, so we're
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going to pick up where we left off in that first podcast. Again.
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It's all about the power of one person and that person that we're focusing on
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is Gwendolen Brooks. So we are here to celebrate miss Gwendolen and to lift
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up this prolific poet, writer, teacher, lover of children, activist,
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publisher, and humanitarian. I can just feel her presence here with me today.
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I feel her presence in so many ways. One of the most powerful
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ways that Gwendolen's presence shows up is through the voices of other poets, the
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voices of other writers, the voices of other artists. So let's keep this
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real right, we would not have a Lucille Clifton or Nikki Finney, or
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Rita Dove or Tayamba, Jess Cornelius, Edie toy, Derrikott, Elizabeth Alexander,
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Natasha Truthway, Hayes Davis, Carl Dargon, Tara Bets, Amanda Gorman,
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and I dare say, dozens and dozens of other poets and writers African,
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American and otherwise, we would not have these poets or their poetries without
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Gwendolyn Brooks. That's the power of one person, the one person who impacts
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so many lives, and the ripple effect is positively astounding. Now many years
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ago, when I was working with high school students who were looking for a
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poet with a strong sense of narrative style, with a strong command of language,
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and a robust imagination, with a wide ranging repertoire of experience, experiences
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that could be distilled into the sensuous language captured by the sights and sounds,
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and smell and tastes, the tactile worlds that are conveyed in poems. In
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my students search for such a poet, they would inevitably turn to the poetry
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of Gwendolen Brooks. Why because it was in Miss Gwendolen's poems that my students
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learned so much. They learned about love, about tenderness, about cruelty and
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compassion, about hatred and bigotry, and perseverance. They learned about defeat and
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courage, and faithfulness and fear and vainglory and victory. It was in Miss
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Gwendolen's poems that my students learned about voice, the necessity of voice, of
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the poet's voice, as well as the necessity of their own voices. So
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again, I'm so very delighted that you joined us today. Did you know
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that Ms. Brooks is the first female African American poet to win the Pulitzer
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Prize, and she's the first female African American to become Poet Laureate of the
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United States of America. Now, during her life, she was awarded numerous
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honorary doctor degrees, numerous prizes, and many many other worthy tributes. But
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the best way to introduce our woman of the hour is not by sharing her
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many many accolades. Oh, No, the best way to introduce Gwendolyn Brooks
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is through her own words, through her own poetry and prose. Now,
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this woman with a keen sense of observation, social and emotional intelligence, and
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a great love for people, that's the person we're honoring to day, This
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woman whose great gift was to see into and inhabit the personhood of another person,
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and to write in a voice that sounded like their own first hand account.
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This account could be about a life lived in a frugally small, cramped
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and cluttered, cold water flat, or the kind of living space that was
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furnished with the carpet of kinship, enlarged by a fondness for fellowship, and
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warmed by the hearth of love. In one of her poems, Miss Brooks
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writes about Paul Robeson. In this poem, she boldly declares, we are
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each other's harvest, We are each other's business, We are each other's magnitude
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and bond. Wow, that's pretty powerful stuff. In other words, Miss
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Brooks is saying, then and now we belong to one another. We belong
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to one another, and thank goodness for that. Miss Gwendolen's voice, and
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now I'm talking about her actual voice was very measured and steady. Her voice
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was tinted with hues of the South. The body, the sheer weight and
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measure of her voice had the kind of gravitas that made you listen real close,
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that made you pay attention. Her voice hung in the air, embracing
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you with a sense of certainty, with a knowing and a deep wisdom of
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a life blessed with abundance. Now I'm not talking about monetary abundance. I'm
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talking about the abundance of people and place and the mighty, enduring presences of
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poetry. Hers was a voice that sparked diverse responses. One response was a
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common thread, a response Miss Brooks heard throughout her life. You read your
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poem so beautifully. How does this happen, and she would respond, when
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you're writing a poem, you're not sitting there all cold and dull and dim.
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You're all excited. Miss Brooks also said, I tried to read poetry
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to give an impression of how I felt when I was writing it. Now,
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just a few moments ago, I shared the closing lines of one of
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her poems, the poem called Paul Robison. Here is the whole poem,
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Paul Robison. That time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting
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across the hot grit of the day, the major voice, the adult voice
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for going rolling river, foregoing tearful tale of bail and barge, and other
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symptoms of an old despond warning in music words devout and large, that we
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are each other's harvest, We are each other's business, We are each other's
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magnitude and bond mercy. In this amazing, amazing and beautiful poem, Miss
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Gwendolen distills a life the life of renowned scholar, activist, and humanitarian Paul
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Robison, This human being who was blacklisted by Hollywood, This human being who
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had the courage and fortitude and integrity to wield his magnificent intellect as a force
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for human dignity to lift up his mighty voice as an instrument for change,
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to convey by his presence the power and the indomitable force of the human spirit.
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This is Paul robeson the human being. I'll read that poem again,
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Paul Robison, that time we all heard it, cool and clear, cutting
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across the hot grit of the day, the major voice, the adult voice,
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foregoing, rolling river, foregoing tearful, tale of bail and barge,
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and other symptoms of an old despond warning in music words devout and large.
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We are each other's harvest. We are each other's business. We are each
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other's magnitude and bond. Another one of my fas favorite poems by miss Brooks,
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and probably one of her most well known poems, is another short one,
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and it's called We Real Cool, We Real Cool, The pool Players
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seven at the Golden Shovel. We Real Cool. We left school. We
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lurk late, We strike straight, We sing Sin, We fen Jen,
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we jazz June. We die soon. You know, it's such a short
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poem, yet it is filled with atmosphere. I'll read it again. We
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Real Cool, The Pool Players seven at the Golden Shovel. We real cool.
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We left school, We lurk late, We strike straight, we sing
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sen We then gen we jazz June, We die soon. Mmm. Poems
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are like that. Poems are like that. Sometimes they want to be read
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a second time or even a third or fourth time right now. Unlike being
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in a museum or taking in sculpture or painting, where we can pause and
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consider for a good long while, the words of a poem can fly away.
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They just fly away from us as soon after they land on our ear.
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They are God. If you like hearing poems like I do, I
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encourage you to download this podcast so you can listen to it again and again.
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And if you like to hear poems read on the poet's owned breath,
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you can just go to a good poetry website and listen to an audio recording.
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You can also find audio and video recordings of Miss Brooks sharing some of
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her poems on YouTube. How cool is that? You know? As I
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did my research for today, I was absolutely amazed at what I found out
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about Miss Brooks and her prolific volume of written work, as well as her
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service in her community with youth in our schools, youth on our streets,
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with prisoners with people in taverns, right in bars and in churches. Here's
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another poem by Miss Gwendolen. I know I've said that, You know I
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have a lot of favorites already, right well, this is one of my
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favorites as well. And this poem is called Kitchenette Building. Kitchenette Building,
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we are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan grade in and gray.
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Dream makes a giddy sound, not strong like rent feeding a wife, satisfying
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a man. But could a dream send up through onion fumes. It's white
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and violet, fight with fried potatoes and yesterday's garbage ripening in the hall,
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flutter or sing an aria down these rooms even if we were willing to let
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it in, had time to warm it, keep it very clean, anticipate
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a message, let it begin, we wonder, But not well, not
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for a minute, since number five is out of the bathroom now we think
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of lukewarm water. Hope to get in it now. One of the reasons
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I love this poem, and I love it for many, many reasons,
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But I think the most significant reason is because it helps me recall in an
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instant my own life, my own life of living in the projects. Now,
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these were not the projects in Chicago, but the projects in Detroit,
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right, Detroit, Michigan. And it also connects me to the dreams that
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so many people had, dreams that were seldom realized because the urgency of life,
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I mean the urgency what was right in front of you day in and
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day out, week in and week out, just took over. And you
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know what, over time, the dreams began to grow smaller and smaller,
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until one day there was no dream. There was only the concrete reality of
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the undi in fumes from somebody else's cramped apartment. Right. The smell of
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your own or somebody else's garbage whenever you walk down the hall toting your family's
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garbage to drop it into the chute that led to the incinerator, right.
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The concrete reality of waiting for one of your neighbors to hurry up and finish
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in the bathroom so you can have your turn. The concrete reality of the
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hot smell and scorching sting of asphalt, the playground for us children just outside
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the revolving front door. Miss Brooks is so attentive and exquisitely skilled at capturing
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the essence of a person's life in just a few well chosen words and images
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and tastes and smells. One of the hallmarks of her writing is that she's
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also gifted in being with people, not merely writing about them. Sabrina Miller,
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in writing an article for the Chicago Tribune about the legacy of Gwendolen Brooks,
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Miss Miller reminds us that long before the black Arts movement of the nineteen
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sixties brought fiery rhetoric into the mainstream, Miss Brooks was holding poetry workshops in
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her home with members of the notorious street gang called the black Stone Rangers.
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Susan L. Taylor, former editor in chief of Essence magazine, calls Brooks
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a master writer who communicated the most profound ideas in a simple, accessible way.
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She was truly a humble queen among us, who loved her blackness,
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who loved being a woman, and who had a generosity of spirit that is
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UNPAIREDLD. Can I just get an amen? Now Here? Is one of
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Miss Gwendolen's simple, accessible, and I might add savvy poems called Sadie and
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Maud. Sadie and Maud. Maud went to college, Sadie stayed home Sadie
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scraped life with a fine tooth comb. She didn't leave a tangle in her
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comb, found every strand Sadie was one of the livingest chicks in all the
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land. Sadie bore two babies under her maiden name, Maud and ma and
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Papa nearly died of shame when Sadie said her last, so long her girls
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struck out from home. Sadie as heritage, her fine tooth comb. Maud,
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who went to college, is a thin brown mouse. She is living
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all alone in this old house. Now. This poem is simple and accessible,
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Yes it is, And like any good poem, there's much much more
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to it than meets the eye. That's where savvy comes in, you see.
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On the surface, this poem is about two women, one named Sadie,
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the other named Maud. But when we pay attention, and when we
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hear the song beneath the song of this poem, it really is about relationship.
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It is about our relationships with other people, our relationship with the world,
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our relation with ourselves. And on another layer, this poem is a
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metaphor for life, a metaphor for life, for how we live. And
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you know me, I always say how we live is how we do everything
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else right. It's how we parent, it's how we teach, it's how
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we serve, it's how we love, It's how we lead in any aspect
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of our lives. Now, if you want to learn more about Miss Gwendolen
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Brooks and her life of writing and service, be sure to visit the Poetry
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Foundation website. That's right, it's the Poetry Foundation website and the url is
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www dot poetry Foundation dot org. Okay, www dot poetry Foundation dot org.
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There you can read more about Miss Gwendolen's life, read her poems,
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and even hear her reads of her own poems. You can also find a
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wonderful tribute to Miss Gwendolen's life in a beautiful book called I Dream a World.
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This book is composed by Brian Lanker. I Dream a World is a
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lovely photo narrative book. It's oversized in fact, the photo portraits take up
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one full page, and on the facing page of each spread is a narrative,
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words from each woman's own mouth, words that paint a picture of who
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she is, Words that paint a picture of her values, her loves,
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her family, her work, her struggles, her hopes, her joys,
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her facing and dealing with barriers and obstacles, and ultimately words that paint a
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vivid picture of her victories and triumphs. The book was published in nineteen eighty
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nine. When I bought it many many years ago, I recognized many of
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the women in it, and some of them I became familiar with only after
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reading their narratives and studying their photos, and just looking into their eyes,
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looking into the eyes of a woman who looked back at me from those very
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pages. More than that, I imagined these individuals as as full bodied,
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not simply as talking head, so to speak. I imagined them as full
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bodied and standing on the shoulders of the many men and women who made a
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way, who built roads and bridges, who gave these women a place to
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stand, who gave these women a place to belong, who gave these women
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the oxygen to dream, the centering oxygen to keep on breathing into their dream,
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over and over and over and over and over again. Even now,
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all these years later, I continue to be inspired by these amazing women who
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grace the pages of Brian Lanker's book I Dream a World. I continue to
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be inspired by their lives for They are a fountain of renewal and rejoicing.
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As we celebrate Miss Gwendolen, I'll call the names of some of her sisters
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who stand alongside her. These women are divas and dancers, actors and athletes,
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educators and evocateurs. These women are artists, activists advocates. They are
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poets and politicians. They are community organizers and champions for our children. Some
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of these women are now part of the ages, but they are all women
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who have finally been knitted into the larger fabric, who have been woven into
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the larger tapestry of the history of the United States of America. Mercy,
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Hallelujah. These women include Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Lena Horne,
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Shirley Chisholm, Fannie Lou Hamer, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Tony Morrison,
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Leontine Price, Marian Anderson, Merley Evers, Maya Angelo, Barbara Jordan,
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Odetta Ruby d and more of my favorites, Sonya Sanchez, Catherine Dunham,
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Janetta Cole b Richards, Ernestine Anderson, Willie may Ford Smith, Betty
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Shabbaz, Wilma Rudolph, Alexa Kanadi, Septima p. Clark, Eva Jesse,
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and of course Gwendolyn Brooks. I consider all of these women mentors.
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All of them joined me in celebrating these women who changed the game, these
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women who transformed the world, their own world as well as the world beyond
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their immediate spheres of influence. Can I just tell you something. To call
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the names of these women is a blessing and honor. To breathe their sweet
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fragrance, and to sing the marvelous music of their names is litany. It
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is Hallelujah, It is healing prayer. Oh my theirs is a music that
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carries the enchanting melody, the intoxicating aroma of gardena honeysuckle, night, blooming
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jasmine, hyacinth, tuber rose. To call their names is a prayer lifted
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up to Heaven, carried carried on the wings of the dove. It is
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a precious holiness carried in our ancestors, bosoms, lifted up to the rafters,
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in rooms that breathe with sweet remembrance of bread broken together, in rooms
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that exhale, shouting and wailing and falling on our knees as we call on
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the sweet name of Jesus. It is the red dirt roads, the blood
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orange dusk, and the pipe drift of cherry tobacco lifted onto the breezes at
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dawn. It is a humming and trembling and clapping our hands as we lift
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them up, as we sing our hallelujahs, for we have come this far.
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We have come this far by grace. Can I just tell you something
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else? We are blessed by these women who dreamed, by these women who
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sacrificed and persevered, who cleared paths and broke new ground for you and your
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children. Gwendolen Brooks signifies and represents with all of these women she does.
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Miss Gwendolen. We absolutely salute you, we honor you, we love you,
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and we celebrate you during National Poetry Month, during Women's History Month,
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and not only then, we celebrate you every single day. We celebrate you
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from making the invisible visible, for your compassionate artistry and marvelous gifts of being
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awake to life and turning life the good, the gracious, the ugly,
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and the tragic into astonishing works of reverence into astounding works of art. We
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express our deep, deep gratitude. We thank you for showing us the power
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of poetry in motion and the power of one person, of one person who
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lives their life to make a difference. Now that's exactly what we talked about
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earlier, and I promise to say more about how you can do the same
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thing to make a difference and to make your life count. So here we
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go. You can make your life count by being there for someone who simply
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needs the sweet, precious framegrants of your presence. So what do I mean
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by that? Well, maybe they just need you to listen to them talk
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about their day or about how their mom is doing. Or maybe they need
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to talk about their relationship with their thirteen year old daughter or son, and
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they don't want to just talk with anybody. What they really need is to
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talk to you. Why, Because you listen. You listen with a smile
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in your heart. You listen without having to jump in and give advice.
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You listen because you really care. You make your life count by the simple
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loving things you do for someone. Maybe you make your wife a cup of
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her favorite tea, not because she asked you, but because you know it's
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one of her favorites. You also do it because you know her love language.
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Or maybe you play her favorite music, or perhaps you go for a
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nice long walk with her, not because you need the exercise, but just
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because Now, maybe you take a time out of time, maybe thirty minutes
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twenty minutes, to go through your closets and you pull out your gently used
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shirts or blouses. You're gently used sweaters and slacks, and you fold them
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up and take them to your local goodwill or thrift store. Or maybe you
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take whatever extra money you have and you buy some food to donate to your
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local food bank. Or maybe you read a story to a child. Did
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you know to a young girl or boy? Attention is spelled l O v
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E right. To make a difference, you don't have to do anything fancy
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or extraordinary. You don't have to be a superhero or superhero right, none
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of those capes right. You just have to have a heart full of love.
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You simply have to serve others without any expectation of return. You could
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put a handful of fresh herbs from your deck or garden and give them to
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a neighbor. Or maybe you could bake a batch of cookies and take them
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to the nursing home. Be sure to give some to your mom when you
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visit her, and give some to the staff. You could also call a
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friend or remember, when you write a note to someone, just tuck in
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a few stamps, or a bag of tea or a pack of coffee.
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Right, my sister calls my mom every day just to say and to tell
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her how much she loves her. When I call my mom, I love
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to sing songs with her, the song she sang as a little girl.
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Now sometimes she can't remember my name, but she remembers those songs. Sometimes
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I'll read her stories or share scripture with her. Now, what's my point.
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It's simply this. You can make a difference. You can be the
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difference with who you already are, with what you already have. You make
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a difference by showing up as who you are day by day, every day
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of your life. You make a difference by being grateful for who you are,
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being grateful for family and friends and neighbors and co workers, and by
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counting your blessings. Now, we can go beyond simply counting our blessings.
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Right, we can go beyond by being a bless Not too long ago,
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I was teaching a class, and it was a class for leaders who want
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to take their faith into their work. Not as pastors or rabbis, right,
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but these leaders want to take their faith into the nonprofit and education and
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civic and corporate sectors. They work as police officers and firefighters. They work
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as agency directors and mental health as leaders on our school board, right.
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They're leaders in the military administrators and our healthcare system. They're educators who work
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with our youth. All of these folks are about making a difference. I
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say all of this because, just like you and me, sometimes these leaders,
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Okay, these leaders that I'm talking about, they get so focused on
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making it difference in somebody else's life that guess what they forget about themselves,
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right now, that's what happens when you're so focused on serving, when you're
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focused on passing it on, when you're focused on giving back. So,
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if you're born to serve, like me, we have to remember that one
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of the best ways to make a difference is to first take good care of
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yourself. Right Because we all know that if we were to create a list
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of our to do items, of our to serve items, we would be
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nowhere on that list. So one of the first things to remember is to
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take good care of yourself so that you can serve with a healthy body,
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mind, and soul. How we live is how we serve. It's how
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we serve. Teach, parent, lead right in any aspect of our lives.
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So let's remember to take good care of ourselves every single day. Three
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sixty five, twenty four to seven. All right, now, if you
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Now, before I close today, I want to thank each of you again
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for being here, for allowing me to share a bit about my journey with
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what legacy living is all about, not just living and learning, but living
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and learning and serving so that you make a difference in your own life and
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in the lives of others. It's about being on purpose every single day.
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Three sixty five twenty four seven. Legacy living is one of the many ways
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to make your life count. I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess,
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just count the days in your life. Make the days in your life count.
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That's what legacy living is all about. Have a fantastic day, make
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the days in your life count. God bless you. That's our show today.
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I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll join me
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again next time. Until then, don't just count the days in your life.
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Make the days in your life count. That's what legacy living is all
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about. Here's to you. Have a fantastic day and be sure to make
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it a yes kind of day. Remember to celebrate the music of your life.
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Make the days in your life count.